this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
127 points (89.9% liked)

Showerthoughts

29502 readers
520 users here now

A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

Rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

They're a secondary sexual characteristic, so it seems like something that would get attention.

(page 2) 17 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 86 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You just haven't met anyone like my partner. She pauses movies and TV to point out how my neck "is sexier" than the actor's. "Yours isn't little and thin like his."

"Thanks!"

She is definitely obsessed. Maybe not a fetish, but certainly a point of interest.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (9 children)

To activate monkey neurons, it has to be an indicator of health.

As an example, large breasts indicate health, as malnourishment during adolescence tends to result in smaller breasts later on.

Muscles indicate health as well, so they tend to be considered attractive.

For non health related features, like a symmetrical face, those ones are the non sexual dimorphic characteristics, as those ones you care about transferring regardless of sex. Both men and women want a symmetrical face, basically.

So a large Adam's apple is both a dimorphic feature and a non indicator of health, so its ignored.

load more comments (9 replies)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Just because it's a sexual characteristic doesn't mean it is sexy.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (5 children)

It is, indirectly, a cause of a common fetish: a nice, deep, bass-filled voice. Lots of women appreciate that.

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Why do you think anything primarily male would be a fetish?

Prostate cancer, you’re next

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Wait, is prostate cancer the next fetish, or you’re wishing me to be the next prostate cancer patient?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Or maybe you getting prostate cancer is his fetish.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's probably because a huger number of prominent secondary sexual sex characteristics get fetishized.

A brief search seems to show that it's an attractive quality like masculine forearms, and has a degree of fetish amongst the strangulation fetish community.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean, prostate cancer not so much, but prostate milking is a thing...

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

There is, I am certain of it, a Rule 34 for this and you haven’t been brave enough to find it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

People are into all sorts of things, I'm sure it's a turn-on for a few people. But yeah, very niche.

I learned recently some folks are turned on by those dimples that some people have on their lower backs, AKA dimples of Venus.

load more comments (10 replies)
[–] [email protected] 94 points 7 months ago

Somebody isn't getting their apple polished.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Im struggling to find a way that I can shove my Adam’s Apple in someone’s consenting vagina.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Doesn't have to be penetration. Grind your clit on there

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I don't think the person you replied to has a clit. You somehow didn't understand what they wrote.

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›